I used to like to boast about how few problems we’d run into in five years on the road bicycle touring around the world. I loved busting all the myths about the world being a dangerous place full of thieves, thugs and assorted evil-doers. In face-offs with fear-mongers, I’d insist that, all in all, the [...]
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And so Pass the Days: a dispatch from Bolivia
Our two big Andean adventures (Paso Sico and the remote Southwest Bolivia ride) left me with more than some nice photos and a few good tales to tell. Those cold hard rides had gifted me something that felt like the early stages of pneumonia. I was the sickly one in room 42 at Uyuni’s Hotel [...]
Big Mountains, Colorful Lagunas and a Land Cruiser Invasion
“We’re going out for a while. If any tourists show up, just tell them to wait.” Yeah, alright, sure…we’ll do that. You can count on us–two random cyclists—to take charge of the Bolivia Immigration Post. From the Chilean desert town of San Pedro Atacama, where we’d begun the day, it’s a 2,300 meter climb up [...]
Cycling Bolivia–nothing beats the bike
A last look at brazil..beautiful camping and cycling Stephen Spender “Travel is an art which has to be created by the traveler.” Total distance cycled: 83,399 kilometers (52,452 miles) Current Location: Asuncion, Paraguay Biking the Chaco embodies all that I despair of in bicycle touring. It’s remote, life is unpredictable, there’s a Wild [...]
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